NATS 1760 Lecture Notes - Auguste Comte, Natural Philosophy, Luddite
31 Mar 2013
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Test- theory of evolution- darwin- natural selection question of development, application is related to society how is it related to questions of society. Radical transformation that changes the world from rural and agricultural to urban and machinery. People go from living in land and country to living in cities. Change in way people change and their relationships to machines. Transformation- people use complicated machinery to make things. In past work is done using organic mechanisms (ex; windmill) After 1820, change where machinery of work is powered by artificial sources of energy. Transformed by the idea of science for progress. Starts studying medicine, switches to natural philosophy positivism: Scale of machinery that people are associated with becomes much larger. Machines break the notion of time, they break the rhythm because they can function (ex:steam, coal) consistently. Work is no longer dictated by rhythms of nature, but rhythm of machines. Gives people the power to transform nature.
